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Demographic and Health Survey 2018

Nigeria, 2018
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Reference ID
NGA_2018_DHS_v01_M
Producer(s)
National Population Commission (NPC)
Collection(s)
MEASURE DHS: Demographic and Health Surveys Fragility, Conflict and Violence
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Ideal number of either sex (mv629)

Data file: MREC61

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 29
End: 30
Width: 2
Range: 0 - 98
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Question pretext
All men.
Categories
Value Category
96 Other
98 Don't know
Warning: these figures indicate the number of cases found in the data file. They cannot be interpreted as summary statistics of the population of interest.

Others

Notes
Ideal number of either sex.

These three variables should sum to the total ideal number of children given in variables MV613. If the response to the question for variables MV613 is a non-numeric response, these variables are coded with the same response. In addition, there may be non-numeric responses on each of these questions. Country specific categories for non-numeric responses may also be recorded for these variables.
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